Fred advises financial services, technology, and healthcare companies on litigation and general corporate matters. His litigation practice focuses on class action and consumer protection defense and technology and brand disputes. A Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), Fred has years of data privacy and security experience, with an emphasis on cybersecurity. Fred also serves as trusted counsel to growing companies. He works hand in hand with fellow lawyers and experts in technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, fund formation, data breach response, and equity compensation.
A former in-house counsel, Fred focuses on achieving legal outcomes in a cost-effective manner. He is often praised for his strategic, businesslike approach to complicated, contentious problems.
Fred is proud of his pro bono work. He has advocated for abandoned immigrant children, persons in need of guardianship, and individuals facing religious persecution.
Fred volunteers as a director of ACCESS Group, Inc., a non-profit delivering exceptional services to intellectually and developmentally disabled persons across the state. He is a long-time supporter of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra; the Oxford American literary magazine; and Little Rock Central High School.
Representative matters include intellectual property litigation, including claims of patent, trademark, and copyright infringement; trade secret protection; class action defense; defense of parallel state and federal class actions; consumer protection defense, including bank fee, data breach, and TCPA litigation; securities class actions; shareholder derivative actions; and First Amendment, election, and administrative law. Fred’s clients have achieved favorable outcomes pre-litigation; at mediation and arbitration; at trial, including bench and jury trial victories; in administrative proceedings; and on appeal, affirming key wins and reversing adverse rulings.